World Hunger

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World Hunger – 4 September 2008

It seems like everywhere you turn you hear about world hunger, but
very few people mention the obvious solution: utilize crops to provide
food directly for people and not to feed animals who are then killed
to provide food for relatively few humans while millions of others go
hungry and/or starve. In other words, Go Vegan!

Here are a few facts about the cause of the increase in world hunger:

“The world’s exploding human population, combined with its sagging
ability to feed itself, appear to be on a collision course. The Green
Revolution, which facilitated much of the recent growth, has clearly
stalled out. Indeed, cereal availability per capita has been declining
since 1984, and the “promise” of biotech is far from certain or free of
risk. Today, 70 percent of grain in the U.S. and 43 percent of grain
worldwide lavishly go to feed livestock. And just as the world clamors
for more grain to feed to animals, so people can eat them, per capita
world cropland declined by 20 percent in the 1990’s alone. The World
Health Organization says 800 million people in the world live with
chronic hunger. More meat production is definitely not the answer.”
– From “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian” by Pamela Ricewww.vivavegie.org/itoc

"Joyful Curmudgeon"
An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the
same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the
world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true
peace and compassion.